21M.715 Environmental Performance: the Politics of Space and Identity
Charlotte Brathwaite
Studio seminar investigates live performance as a medium in constant flux. No play is performed the same way twice; no experience can ever be repeated. When a performance breaks the fourth wall, audiences...
21M.846 Topics in Performance Studies: Sport as Performance
Claire Conceison
Seminar investigates the aesthetics of sport as theatrical performance and explores the performance of race, gender, class, nation, and sexuality in sport. Readings drawn from theatre/performance studies, anthropology...
Charles Shadle teaches composition, music theory, and music history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he serves as a Senior Lecturer in Music, and as Theory Coordinator. He is the 2016 recipient of a SHASS Levitan Teaching Award. Numerous institutions, including SUNY Buffalo,...
Jeanne Bamberger is Professor Emerita of Music and Urban Education of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches music theory and music cognition. Her interests include musical development and learning, in...
21M.851 Independent Study in Production & Design: Drawing for Designers
Oana Botez and Sara Brown
Drawing by hand through direct observation is a fundamental skill for architects, artists and designers. In this class, students will explore drawing as a process; as a route to understanding...
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Elena Ruehr's new release "Lift" is reviewed on Gramophone, UK
"Increasingly well represented on disc, Boston-based Elena Ruehr (b1963) has maintained a steady chamber output – of which this selection of works from across 16 years (interestingly heard in reverse order) makes a positive case for her...
MTA Composer Forums present: Arnold Dreyblatt. The Sound of One String: Composition and Performance, 1978 – 2015. 5pm, Lewis Music Library, 14E-109. Free. Refreshments will follow.
About the composer
Composer and media artist Arnold Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte...
MIT Music and Theater Arts celebrated the golden anniversary of its jazz program in the spring of 2013 with an exhibit in the Lewis Music Library, panel discussions with jazz artists and alumni, and a gala concert.
MIT’s jazz program was founded in 1963, but from the 1920s up until 1963, student-...
This 30-minute New England Emmy Award winning documentary features the March 2012 premiere of “Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music,” by composer Jamshied Sharifi ‘83. Commissioned by MIT Music and Theater Arts, with funding from the MIT Visiting Artists program, the work was first...